User-Centric Identity Technologies

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How many passwords do you have?  Maybe 5, 6 or more? If you’re lucky, you have one that works everywhere.  If you've been phished, though, your luck has run out. Most of us have to remember several combinations of passwords to keep our identity safe, to combat phishing and to accommodate merchants’ marketing efforts. How will user-centric identity technologies like Open Space and the use of InfoCards offer an alternative to password alphabet soup? Steve Anderson, identity management product manager at BMC Software offers insight into the latest identity management buzz words: OpenID, Microsoft CardSpace, and InfoCard.

In less than thirty minutes, Steve Anderson explains the difference between enterprise identity and user-centeric identity management; clarifies the confusion around OpenID, Microsoft CardSpace and InfoCard; demonstrates how CardSpace can help close the gaps in OpenID like authentication; and explains what it will take for users to be weened off of passwords. Steve also discusses BMC’s plan to support InfoCards, as well what’s coming up in the new Identity Management for .NET 5.5 release.  Listen to this podcast to learn about the latest identity management technology as well as what might happen in the future.

Resources

BMC Identity Management

Identity Management Podcasts on TalkBMC

Bio

Steve Anderson is an identity management product manager at BMC Software, Inc. Steve has actively participated in the creation of many of today's identity federation standards. He is an original member and the secretary of the OASIS SAML TC, an original member of the OASIS WS-Security TC, a member of the Liberty Alliance Technical Expert Group, and a co-author of WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation.

Production Credits

Ynema Mangum, Executive Producer
Dana Farver, Communities Editor-in-Chief
Tom Parish, Audio Producer
Patty Fadhouli, Web Content Manager

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